
A WOMAN was “appalled, shocked and embarrassed” when her stuffed monkey’s five centimetre pistol was confiscated at airport security in the US.
King5 News reports that Phyllis May was travelling from St Louis to Seattle and had a couple of sock monkey dolls, which she sells, in her carry-on luggage.
“His pistol was in there,” she says of the sock monkey “Rooster Monkburn,” a play on John Wayne’s character “Rooster Cogburn” from the film True Grit.
Ms May was travelling with her husband and going through the screening process when a TSA agent held up her bag and asked who it belonged to.
After Ms May came forward the TSA agent said “this is a gun,” referring to the five-centimetre toy pistol on the sock monkey.
“I said no, it’s not a gun it’s a prop for my monkey,” Ms May said.
The TSA agent then informed Ms May that not only was she confiscating the gun but that she was required to call the police.
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